Length control of individual carbon nanotubes by nanostructuring with a scanning tunneling microscope

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 71, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 2629-2631

  Venema, Liesbeth C ^a   Wildoer J W G ^a   Temminck Tuinstra, H L J ^a   Dekker, C ^a   Rinzler, A G ^b   Smalley, R E ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; LASER APPLICATIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; SPECTROSCOPY;

CARBON NANOTUBES; LASER VAPORIZATION TECHNIQUE;

SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0031551609     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.120161     Document Type: Article

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